This special issue consists of five review papers drawn from an Applied Spectroscopy Reviews (ASR) meeting organized with the aim of incorporating new editorial board members from Central and Eastern Europe and was an integral part of the 4th National Conference of the Hungarian Chemical Society (https://mkenk2023.mke.org.hu/) between July 10th and 12th, 2023, in Eger, Hungary. The Eszterházy Károly Catholic University hosted the ASR meeting and the 4th National Conference of the Hungarian Chemical Society. Briefly, the number of participants of the 4th National Conference of the Hungarian Society was 150, 10 plenary presentations, 6 keynote lectures and 22 regular presentations were delivered. In total, 37 posters have been displayed.
The ASR core group consisted of Eva Kočišová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic), Ursula Fittschen (Clausthal Technical University, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany), Stella A. Ordoudi (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Northern Macedonia, Greece), Joseph Sneddon (ASR Editor-in-Chief), Yong-Ill Lee (ASR Editor for Asia) and Victor G. Mihucz (ASR Editor for Central and Eastern Europe). Except for the presentation of Joseph Sneddon and Victor G. Mihucz scheduled as regular one, all the other presentations of the ASR core group were scheduled as plenary lectures spread uniformly during the three days of the conference to achieve a higher visibility for ASR among the participants of the aforementioned national conference. Three international PhD students, namely Nani Apriyani (Semmelweis University, Budapest, Hungary), Alžbeta Kuižová (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) and Marta Keller (University of Insubria, Como, Italy) joined the core group with poster presentations. Moreover, Alessandro D’Ulivo from Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds, CNR, Pisa, Italy, as the 2020 awardee of the Tibor Török Medal was a joint invited guest of ASR and the Hungarian Spectrochemical Society.
From left to right: Alessandro D’Ulivo, Victor G. Mihucz, Marta Keller, Nani Apriyani, Alžbeta Kuižová, Eva Kočišová, Joseph Sneddon, Stella Ordoudi, Ursula Fittschen and Yong-Ill Lee at the conference venue.
The complete list of the presentations related to ASR is presented below in chronological order.
Tuesday, July 11th, 2023.
Plenary lecture (PL) 5 Stella A. Ordoudi – Laboratory of Food Chemistry and Technology, School of Chemistry, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, Modern applications of mid-infrared spectroscopy in food science and technology: from molecular structure elucidation to process monitoring and quality control.
Stella Ordoudi delivering her plenary lecture.
Oral presentation 14 Joseph Sneddon, Chad A. Thibodeaux, Victor G. Mihucz – Department of Analytical Chemistry, Institute of Chemistry, ELTE Eötvös Loránd University, Toxic metals and metalloids in seafood.
PL 7 Fittschen Ursula, Thomas Schirmer, Sven Hampel, Alena Schickman, Sophie Wunderlich – Institute of Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Clausthal University of Technology, Clausthal-Zellerfeld, Germany), Understanding the incorporation of critical elements into recoverable compounds in pyrometallurgical slags.
Ursula Fittschen delivering her plenary lecture.
Wednesday, July 12th, 2023.
PL8 Yong-Ill Lee, Shavkatjon Azizov – Anastro Laboratory, Institute of Basic Science, Changwon National University, Republic of Korea and Department of Pharmacy, Pharmaceutical Technical University, Tashkent, Republic of Uzbekistan, Novel optosensing strategies for trace biochemical molecules using functionalized nanomaterials.
PL9 Alessandro D'Ulivo – CNR, Institute of Chemistry of Organometallic Compounds, Vapor generation techniques for trace element analysis: Fundamental studies and applications.
PL10 Eva Kočišová, Alžbeta Kuižová, Ondřej Kylián, Marek Procházka – Division of Biomolecular Physics, Institute of Physics, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic, Sensitive detection of biomolecules and biologically important molecules by drop coating deposition RAMAN (DCDR) spectroscopy.
Eva Kočišová delivering her plenary lecture.
Posters were displayed from Monday, July 10th to July 12th, 2023.
Poster (P) 1 Nani Apriyani, Marta Keller, Anikó Vasanits, Szabolcs Béni, Andrea Cattaneo, Victor G. Mihucz – Semmelweis University Department of Pharmacognosy, Suitability of ultra performance liquid chromatography for determination of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons from cooking emissions.
P18 Marta Keller, Davide Campagnolo, Andrea Cattaneo, Cristina Boldorini, Nani Apriyani, Francesca Borghi, Giacomo Fanti, Sabrina Rovelli, Andrea Spinazzé, Carolina Zellino, Victor G. Mihucz, Carlo Dossi, Domenico Maria Cavallo- Department of Science and High Technology, University of Insubria, Source identification of volatile organic compounds and aldehydes in Italian restaurant kitchens.
P-19 Alžbeta Kuižová, Anna Kuzminova, Ondřej Kylián, Eva Kočišová – Charles University, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics Institute of Physics Department of Biomolecular Physics,Pragie,Czech Republic. Drop coating deposition Raman Spectroscopy of liposomes.
The poster of the PhD student of Eva Kočišová obtained the first prize in the oral competition of posters (flash poster presentations).
During the conference, an ASR Editorial Board meeting with the potential new members led by Joseph Sneddon has been held in the conference meeting room of the Eszterházy Károly Catholic University. During this meeting, professor Sneddon explained the aims and scope of ASR and presented the requirements from the new editorial board members.
Applied Spectroscopy Reviews Editorial Board Meeting with the new potential editorial board members, Eva Kočišová, Ursula Fittschen and Stella Ordoudi.
An informal meeting was held between Joseph Sneddon, Yong-Ill Lee and international guest from on side and the executive board of the Hungarian Chemical Society on the other side during the conference dinner.
Informal meeting of the ASR members and the executive board of the Hungarian Chemical Society on the other side during the conference dinner.
